actually shooting is the one that s culpable. we had nothing whatsoever to do with this. i don t think it s fair to connect sarah palin to this event. but i do think it s fair to connect sarah palin and others on the left and the right to the climate of violence. some republicans say both sides should dial it back. words have consequences. and those consequences can lead to tragedy if you re not careful. you ve got to keep everything within bounds. in fact after giffords was shot, a liberal blogger on the daily post took down his recent criticism of giffords. he had written she is, quote, dead to him for voting for nancy pelosi for democratic leader last week. we should point out that while sarah palin, a pac website did take that down, the controversial map, after the shooting and blamed it on a contractor independent of the campaign, it is still that original march 23rd post with the map is still on sarah